Penjing Garden
Shanghai Botanical Garden
The word pen means tray and the word jing means scenery. Basically, it is known as Chinese Bonsai. As an art form, Penjing has been around since the Tang Dynasty (618 - 907). Penjing artists drew their inspiration from nature, paintings and poetry. Penjing became popular in the early part of Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911). Arrangements of carefully pruned miniature trees and rockeries in a tray became more sophisticated as renditions of natural landscapes.
Penjing, the combination of science and art, is one of the traditional Chinese garden arts and known as three-dimensional painting, silent poetry and living art. In 2016, the Penjing Garden was completely rebuilt, preserving the excellent layout, classic gate and precious penjing resources, reconstructing the Shanghai Penjing Art Museum, the Penjing Exhibition Hall and the International Penjing Art Exchange Center, transforming the Four-season Garden, Longhua Garden, Huicui Garden, Qunfang Garden and Central Garden (Lingpu Park) and setting additional stone basins, frames, lanterns, stone pieces to improve the display of penjing to enhance the overall level of the penjing garden, exhibit the classic and precious penjing which are created by the Shanghai Penjing Masters and have won domestic and international gold medals and prizes. Penjing Garden has become a poetic, beautiful and exquisite HAI-school Jiangnan courtyard garden with charming landscape.
(display board)
Entrance
"The Great River flows, Eastward waves sweeping away, for thousands of years, gallant heroes"
Green mountains gradually disappear in the West.
The overlapping mountains extend thousand of miles, as boundless as the sea and sky, magnificent and momentous.
(display board)
"Standing in the wind, the bonsai looks strong and unyielding. The evergreen Draceana, the modest Bamboo and the noble Plum Blossom combined with fossil wood, gathered here with the purest friendship."
(display board)
Beautiful Maple leaves
Lingpu Garden... "Rivers and mountains rich in beauty"
Rock Penjing Area... rock exhibition halls
Qunfang Garden
Next blog entry will be Conservatories in Shanghai Botanical Garden...
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